SciTech Daily Review - science, technology, future developments, innovations, implications

Who really invented television? Revisionist history says RCA, but in truth it was a Mormon farm boy named Farnsworth. His struggles presaged the battle between Bill Gates and Netscape ... [more]

Paul Ehrlich comments on the tangled skeins of nature and nurture in human evolution (read a review of his latest book, Human Natures, here) ... [more]

A neurosurgeon with a witty writing style and chronic migraines explains that pain isn't so bad once you understand where it comes from ... [more]

Feminist, Taoist, mother, wife -- science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin has made a career incorporating her passions into work that defies categorization ... [more]

FEED talks to Will Wright, creator of The Sims, about spontaneous game behaviour and the joys of serendipity, and enjoys a sneak peek at his next creation ... [more]

Robert Cohen presents four of the most fun books ever written -- if your hobby is worrying about unlikely poisons ... [more]

The mastery of the English past tense isn't a glamorous topic, not these days. That, however, is what Words and Rules is about and, as if to sweep any doubts away, Steven Pinker assures us of the subject's importance: the study of the past tense is "the only case I know in which two great systems of Western thought may be tested and compared ... like ordinary scientific hypotheses" ... [more]

The premise of Me, Myself & Irene must have seemed irresistibly clever to the film's producers and a natural for the chameleon comic Jim Carrey, but mental health professionals and patients did not see the humour (free registration required) ... [more]

In The Condor's Shadow, David Wilcove, a senior ecologist with US Environmental Defense, holds out a slim hope that significant changes in land use could help bring North America's threatened wildlife back from the verge of extinction ... [more]

Sci-art is just an illusion of fusion, argues Steve Jones of The Telegraph. Science and art need to learn to speak the same language before they get into bed together ... [more]

It's obvious that blacks dominate certain sports while whites dominate others. Why can't we talk openly about the genetics of athletic excellence? ... [more]

The human genome -- the complete blueprint of all the genetic information in the human body -- is to be made available on CD-ROM and distributed as a free gift with a magazine ... [more]

Research scientists complain their work is misrepresented by the media. On the contrary, argues Ian Hargreaves, former editor of New Statesman, they are cynically manipulating it to their own ends ... [more]

A Fly for the Prosecution: Everything you never wanted to know about the role of maggots, flies and beetles in forensic science ... [more]

If you've ever found yourself wondering who created a particular website or how exactly the site came into fruition, net.people: The Personalities and Passions Behind the Web Sites could be just the book you've been waiting for ... [more]

Why is the New York Times running ads stating that the Internet isn't "empowering" and computers in the schools are bad for kids? ... [more]

William Powell, author of The Anarchist Cookbook, now wants to blow up his creation ... [more]

Why are roboticists building machines in their own image? Robo Sapiens introduces a homemade population and the egos behind the bots ... [more]

All the primal urges are genetically programmed, says Mean Genes, but we can overcome biology and act the way we know we should ... [more]

Richard Powers -- a writer who connects technology, art, and politics as few others can -- talks to the Atlantic about his new novel, Plowing the Dark, and the age-old human search for the virtual and the eternal ... [more]

It's the world's most famous equation, but what did Einstein actually mean, asks David Bodanis in E=mc2 ... [more]

Alan Lightman's The Diagnosis is a darkly allegorical novel about the human costs of a meaningless, high-tech work world run amok ... [more]

Books about unidentified flying objects generally fall into two categories: Those written by UFO believers, and those written by UFO debunkers. Spaceships of the Visitors tries to fit into both categories -- but doesn't quite succeed ... [more]

Geek Studies: Hackers, freaks, outsiders, Homo Superior? Call them what you will, geeks are everywhere, and their stories help explain how science is shaping us ... [more]

What happened to the women's Web?: They promised a revolution, but all we got was horoscopes, diet tips and parenting advice ... [more]

If you're tired of hearing about creationists and the war against Darwinism, you might be surprised to learn that another pillar of modern science, Einstein and his theory of relativity, is also under attack ... [more]

Ain't no network strong enough ... Master cryptographer Bruce Schneier's Secrets and Lies explains why computer security is an oxymoron ... [more]

Disregarding our illusory firewalls of thought, Timothy Ferris boldly goes where no science writer has gone before ... [more]

What about e-reading? Authors and publishers are scrambling to keep up with revolutionary changes in technology. But readers are the ones who ultimately will drive this revolution ... [more]

Floraphiles get nasty in A Rum Affair by Karl Sabbagh -- a true story of the near-perfect botanical crime ... [more]

The rise of the sci-fi divas: They're smart. They're fierce. And they look smashing in skintight leather ... [more]

Flameproof racism: On the Evolutionary Psychology mailing list, dangerous ideas thrive -- without the usual online rancour and hatred ... [more]

David Berlinski's latest book, The Advent of the Algorithm, goes far beyond popularizing an important, if abstruse, mathematical innovation. Touching upon disciplines as varied as physics, mathematical logic, and psychology, it carries the reader from anecdote to technical explanation to philosophical speculation to lyrical musing and back again with barely a pause ... [more]

When artists collaborate with scientists, both art and science are transformed by the process ... [more]

Don't feel guilty about not buying your toddler a Pentium, argues Failure to Connect. You may be doing the kid a favour ... [more]

There'll be no getting away from school when it comes right into the home ... [more]

Are the Irish descended from the pharaohs? According to Kingdom of the Ark, the ancient Egyptians established a colony in Ireland 3,500 years ago ... [more]

The number of living languages is shrinking fast -- but does it really matter? ... [more]

Buzz Aldrin is on a new mission. The former astronaut is determined to see that humans reach Mars by 2020. And he'll use every means at his disposal -- including literature -- to make it happen ... [more]

Effective searchers develop habits that help them cut through the clutter and noise on the Web to quickly locate what they need. Here are seven tips for finding just about anything on the Web ... [more]

The Burning of Bridget Cleary and Madumo: A Man Bewitched are two books that draw pictures of the lethal results of superstition run amok over science. Both authors are prone to apologizing for the cultural imperialism of the Enlightenment, but they must also confront the fact that sometimes quaint old customs kill people ... [more]

If humans are such an intelligent species, why can't we figure out what IQ tests measure? Ken Richardson attempts to answer this stubborn old question in The Making of Intelligence ... [more]

Rebecca Goldstein's Properties of Light could be called a work of science fiction: The science is physics, the fiction is about passion -- and Goldstein makes the physics fascinating ... [more]

Beware of geeks bearing gifts: Microsoft may offer you a break on Windows Me, but that doesn't mean the upgrade won't cost you ... [more]

Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe: As the vast scale of the universe has become clearer, the notion that life could have arisen only on Earth seems increasingly unlikely. "Not so fast," say authors Ward and Brownlee, who suggest that complex organisms are not likely to appear on many -- if any -- planets besides our own ... [more]

Blaze: The Forensics of Fire discusses how investigators determine the cause of a blaze and the science of fighting fires ... [more]

Looking for an intelligent, interesting and unpretentious book about the Internet and its business potential? Digital Business may be what you need ... [more]

Medical illness, mental disorder, legal construct, cultural perception and off-color joke: Nymphomania: A History chronicles the transformation of the term and describes how new attitudes are colliding with persistent stereotypes about female sexuality ... [more]

A cigar is never just a cigar: Smoking in British Popular Culture 1800-2000 looks at how smoking may be deeply embedded in a cultural framework that continues to associate the habit with positive attributes ... [more]

It's not about realism, but Space Cowboys could be the story of the space program, according to a review by Space.com ... [more]

Voyeurism! Consumerism! Hype! Is DotComGuy a human incarnation of the worst the Net has to offer? ... [more]

Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy: "There is a sense in which... our modern chronic disorders are reflections of design limitations, delayed trade offs, and nature-nurture mismatches. They are part of the natural scheme of things even if we would like to believe that we have been sculptured to perfection" ... [more]

Lives of the Psychics and The Second Creation: The first book agrues the "science" of psychic phenomena, while the second discusses the creativity at the heart of great biology research ... [more]

Don't Tell the Patient: Behind the Drug Safety Net: If the pharmaceutical industry pays for, and carries out, studies of drug safety then there could be a danger that it will have a vested interest... ... [more]

The Accelerating Universe: Should a scientific theory be judged on aesthetic as well as practical grounds? ... [more]

"Your hands are hydrogen atoms, your ankles are the lone pairs of electrons on oxygen. Stand with legs apart (if you can get an angle of around 109 [degrees] between them, good for you -- but don't push it). Twist 90 [degrees] at the waist, stretch out your arms and you're H2O." If you're not in physio by now you may want to read Life's Matrix: A Biography of Water ... [more]

In Search of the Golden Frog: How's life for a biologist doing fieldwork in Costa Rica with her infant daughter in tow? ... [more]

Try to name ten wild animals off the top of your head and you'll find most of them will probably be from the tropics. A Naturalist's Guide to the Tropics looks at the astonishing diversity and complexity of tropical life ... [more]

It now seems unlikely that a single gene for a trait like "free will" could ever be isolated and replaced in order to control behavior. The Business of Memory and Time, Love, Memory discuss genetics and behavior ... [more]

Turning the Next Page -- The willingness to take risks with new technology could be the difference between an acceptable library and an exceptional one. ... [more]

All the excitement of "real TV" in a book! Collapse: When Buildings Fall Down ... [more]

Dogs are cuddly and loyal, but do most people like them simply because they're easy to boss around? Emily Jenkins reviews six dog psychology books ... [more]

Not for the squeamish... a founding father of forensic entomology, Lee Goff, discusses how (among other things) maggots solve crimes ... [more]

The Internet is home to all manner of people and politics. Surely, no single way of thinking can dominate? Prepare to be unpleasantly surprised ... [more]

Doctors Afield -- Can jazz music, poetry and wine-making produce better doctors? ... [more]

Inventions, whether from outer or inner space, are often born in a crisis and grow into a convenience ... [more]

At a time when scientific discovery outpaces almost everyone's understanding of it, Richard Powers is a novelist with the ability to bridge the two cultures ... [more]

We need more dirt! Eat Dirt, a recent TV documentary on asthma, suggests a crucial cause of asthma may be the lack of dirt in our daily lives (free registration required) ... [more]

If you think designing a spaceship for the movies is a matter of putting a booster rocket on a hairdryer, Syd Mead can tell you a thing or two ... [more]

The great thing about a good book is that it can show that you were just plain wrong -- Tim Birkhead's Promiscuity and Geoffrey Miller's The Mating Mind challenge traditional views of reproduction ... [more]

The Internet is starting to behave like Turing's Universal Machine, with important implications for activitists ... [more]

Science begets pseudo-science by making it seem as if the universe is so strange that anything can happen, including Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials ... [more]

Did those scientists who built the bomb sell their souls? ... [more]

Feminist anthropology rests more on ideology than evidence, argues Cynthia Eller in The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory ... [more]

Clifford Geertz' most recent collection of papers and lectures, Available Light, illuminates the troubled crossroads where anthropology dwells, perpetually torn between seeking the universal and the relativistic ... [more]

Your mobile phone is about to become a device for waging intergalactic war ... [more]

The need to find appropriate cancer management strategies for developing countries has prompted the launch of a new medical journal (free registration required) ... [more]

Kim Stanley Robinson -- the science-fiction writer who can tell you everything about what it takes to terraform Mars -- discusses the unsurprising discovery of water on the Red Planet, why robots make poor explorers, and the ethical quandary that arises if there really is life out there ... [more]

Any time now, the Internet will start demanding information... or else. Shouldn't we be afraid? ... [more]

What is the impact of artificial systems on the body? Is it a purely technical revolution, or does the interface between body and the machine transform our environment? ... [more]

Scientific American considers the hidden labyrinth of hardware that is the physical internet, taking a cyber-pinging journey among Web sites near and far ... [more]

Female scientists dominate the study of great apes. A victory for feminism? It may be just the reverse ... [more]

Nancy Dowd argues in her upcoming book Redefining Fatherhood that parenthood for men needs to be redefined as primarily nurturing, rather than being considered only in biological or economic terms ... [more]

We have eyes, therefore we cannot see, or why science had nothing to do with Thomas Kuhn's much-cited work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions ... [more]

Online computer games can become more real than 'real life' to some players, blurring the boundaries between the real, unreal and surreal ... [more]

At h2g2.com, Douglas Adams is trying to make his guide to the galaxy come to life. Salon.com gets his take on life, the universe and everything ... [more]

These days people expect that little bit extra from a natural history narrative. Bill Laurance's Stinging Trees and Wait-a-Whiles and Martha Crump's In Search of the Golden Frog both provide a fascinating fly-on-the-field-hut-wall view of life as a tropical ecologist ... [more]

Much has been written about Mendel as the forgotten hero, but Robin Marantz Henig's A Monk and Two Peas paints a different portrait ... [more]

The Geek Handbook is a handy how-to manual on learning to love your geek, and keeping him or her in good running order ... [more]

Don’t watch local television news, tell whoever doesn’t believe in you to go to hell and move into the future with those who do believe, advises science-fiction author Ray Bradbury ... [more]

Soon the agents protecting US government computer systems won't be writing the software... they'll be the software ... [more]

Eugene Volokh, Declan McCullagh, and Jeffrey Rosen debate the central contention of Rosen's The UnWanted Gaze: Rosen's claim that online life is eroding our right to privacy and self-definition ... [more]

T M Luhrmann's Of Two Minds is a subtle study of the conflict between talk-oriented and drug-oriented psychotherapy, and its consequences for the mentally ill and the community ... [more]

Keith Devlin insists in The Maths Gene that everyone is born with the ability to understand maths. It's just that most of us never learn to use our innate skills ... [more]

Space art bridges the gulf between science and creativity, celebrating nature on the broadest canvas ... [more]

The media loves Heisenberg's uncertainty theory, but do they really understand it at all? ... [more]

How do you hold your own in the cut-throat world of new technology? Engines of Tomorrow records Robert Buderi's three-year trip around top corporate labs in search of the secret ... [more]

Gadget fans can now buy a revolutionary digital home-cinema system, with astonishingly high quality pictures. But the new system has Hollywood studio bosses sweating ... [more]

In Rattling the Cage Harvard law professor Steven Wise asks us to consider where we, as a society, should draw the line in recognizing legal rights. Why, he asks, if an ape and a developmentally disabled human are similar in ability, thought and feeling, should one be accorded basic rights while the other is treated as property? ... [more]

While the world quavers over the dark implications of genome research, yet another question arises: What are the implications for storytelling? If our future is contained in the various permutations of the four letters of our DNA, where does that leave the notion of human mystery? ... [more]

Brenda Fowler's Iceman charts the scientific investigations and political shenanigans triggered by the 1991 discovery of a well-preserved 5,000-year-old man in a Tyrolean glacier ... [more]

The internet has long been considered largely a male preserve, but women now make up half its population -- up from a mere 9% five years ago ... [more]

A 3-year British study suggests that the internet is reinforcing divisions in society, rather than helping to break down social barriers ... [more]

A game show being developed in Denmark offers perhaps the grandest grand prize of all -- a trip into space for the lucky winner ... [more]

There is a prevailing attitude online that all users will tend toward a common electronic culture. A glance at history indicates that this dream of unification is just that -- a dream ... [more]

With real life plunging headlong into a science-fiction future, how can fiction writers hope to keep ahead of the headlines? ... [more]

What is art? Is it really just men showing off? The Mating Mind is Geoffrey Miller's impressive account of current sexual selection theory ... [more]

Through the quest for a quantum computer -- described in Julian Brown's new book, Minds, Machines, and the Multiverse -- much is becoming clear about the strange, paradoxical world governed by quantum mechanics [more] ... [more]

Stephen Jay Gould's most recent collection of essays, The Lying Stones of Marrakech, sweeps through the history of the natural sciences, pausing along the way for tales of hoaxes, fraud, and the power of money over scientific freedom ... [more]

Computer security experts have poured scorn on Bill Gates's claim that breaking up Microsoft will make it harder to fight future viruses such as the Love Bug ... [more]

Physicists sometimes note an aesthetic element to their science -- good theories are not only accurate but beautiful. In The Accelerating Universe, Mario Livio searches for beauty in the realm of cosmological theories ... [more]

I don't want to give the impression that perfectly normal, healthy, thoughtful and balanced people are not drawn to orchids. I am told they exist. I just didn't have much luck finding them. See what else Eric Hansen has to say about this rabid, blatantly sexual flori-culture ... [more]

In Cyberselfish, Paulina Borsook denounces high-tech culture as pitiless, egotistical and libertarian. (Read an interview with the author here ) ... [more]

Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point uncovers the rules for engineering social epidemics ... [more]

While the mainstream media fulminates against the violence of "first-person shooters," the the videogame industry has been quietly succumbing to the god-game revolution ... [more]

The ethical and aesthetic connection between virtual reality and reality may be stronger than most people believe ... [more]

An electronic judge is on trial, dispensing instant justice on the streets of Brazil ... [more]

Larry Niven discusses How To Save Civilization and Make A Little Money: "In reality or in our minds, we will always be rebuilding the space program" ... [more]

Zen and the art of start-ups: A Silicon Valley rebel gets spiritual about making money in The Monk and the Riddle ... [more]

If you wanted to fill a shelf with the best books on the state of the planet, you'd do well to ask advice from an expert ... [more]

A controversial legal ruling could end up making the Internet the easiest medium to censor in Britain ... [more]

From creationist tomes to biology textbooks, the battle over evolution has spawned many millions of words. Here is a highly adaptive selection from the battle of the books ... [more]

Breeding software used to be the stuff of science fiction and esoteric artificial intelligence research. Now it's coming to a videogame store near you. What happens when Darwin meets Mario? ... [more]

Conspiracy theorists (and the merely curious) have been flocking to a website showcasing the first publicly-available satellite images of the US Air Force's infamous Area 51 test site -- but some early visitors found it curiously difficult to gain access ... [more]

A new biography of pioneering sex researcher Alfred C. Kinsey considers the importance of his open-minded attitude to sexuality in both his work and his private life ... [more]

Magic Mineral to Killer Dust is Geoffrey Tweedale's fascinating and moving account of the poisonous legacy of the asbestos industry in Britain ... [more]

In The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things sociologist Barry Glassner explains why the sky is not falling, though everyone seems to be ducking for cover ... [more]

Neuroscience has been developing at a furious pace. Gordon Fain's Molecular and Cellular Physiology of Neurons and Paul Katz's Beyond Neurotransmission both examine this sudden explosive accumulation of knowledge ... [more]

The technology of computer hard drives is fast approaching a physical barrier which will require tricky innovations to overcome ... [more]

In 1975, entomologist E. O. Wilson was accused of being racist, sexist and even fascist. Just what was all the fuss about? Defenders of the Truth is Ullica Segerstrale's first-hand account of the controversy ... [more]

Excuse me, is that a monitor on your head? ... [more]

Stuart Clark's Life on Other Worlds and How to Find it urges us to walk before we run in our search for extraterrestrial life ... [more]

At some point virtual environments will become as real to the user as 'real life' itself. What sort of morality will prevail in such an environment and does this have implications for morality in the "real" world? ... [more]

Stephen Grand is the proud father of the Norns, the world's most sophisticated (not to mention cutest) artificial life forms ... [more]

The feeling of distance in cyberspace depends more on bandwidth than geography ... [more]

In Genome: The Autobiography of a Species, Matt Ridley asks: Are sparkling blue eyes and a ravishing smile one step away from becoming the next direct-mail must-have? ... [more]

Stephen King's e-book success has largely served to prove once again that the more things change, the more they stay the same ... [more]

Just what does the Pope's observatory do? In a recent book Jesuit Guy Consolmagno has revealed all. New Scientist talks to the former NASA astronomer and current keeper of the Vatican's meteorite collection ... [more]

A new system designed to protect freedom of speech by making publishers of information on the Internet anonymous, could make it even harder to investigate illegal material on websites ... [more]

In his new book, Time, Love, Memory, Jonathan Weiner turns his storytelling skills to researchers' efforts to probe the connection between genes and behaviour (free registration required) ... [more]

A robotic composer that can "write" its own music is performing before critical audience in Zurich -- but if they don't like what they hear, they have only themselves to blame ... [more]

A Plague of Frogs almost earns its melodramatic subtitle, The Horrifying True Story, by demonstrating that the environmental problems which can cause malformations in amphibians are far too complex to be easily defined -- or solved ... [more]

John Casti's second book, Five More Golden Rules gives more of the greatest ideas in maths an airing -- but you may need a maths degree to appreciate them ... [more]

Are you an inventor? Are you looking for an inventor? The Web has ways of bringing you together ... [more]

In Voodoo Science, physicist Robert Park responds to alternative medicine and cold fusion with a resounding, "Bah, humbug!" ... [more]

Intelligence agencies soon won't have any problem snooping on private satellite telephone calls ... [more]

They pull huge film and television audiences, but just why are we so fascinated by dinosaurs? ... [more]

When biochemist Jeffrey Wigand blew the whistle on tobacco giant Brown & Williamson, he -- and his family -- received death threats. But he'd do it all again ... [more]

In Infections and Inequalities, Paul Farmer argues that the sociocultural context of infectious disease needs to be considered if control measures are ever to prove successful (free registration required) ... [more]

Does zero count? What does it measure? Two new books, Charles Seife's Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea and Robert Kaplan's The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero insist that we travel right back in time to find the roots of nothing ... [more]

Vital archaeological records are being lost, as the computers on which they are stored become obsolete ... [more]

Fibre optics could be considered the nervous system of the Information Age ... [more]

It appears that prehistoric cave-painters were not all that different from modern humans ... [more]

Dangling from a rope down a deep pit of acid, hot water and poison gas might not be most people's idea of a good time -- but there's nowhere else caver Michael Ray Taylor would rather be. Dark Life is his account of travels in the belly of the Earth ... [more]

Want a provocative thesis? A Natural History of Rape posits that rape is as much a part of the natural landscape of sexual behaviour as courtship and flirting (read another review here ) ... [more]

Medical internet legends are enough to scare the antibodies right out of you ... [more]

Robert Ballard was among the first to observe hydrothermal vents along the Galapagos Rift. He also found the Titanic. The Eternal Darkness charts the efforts to penetrate the "inner space" of the ocean, a task that has inspired the development of remarkable technology ... [more]

More and more physicists appear to be embracing the idea of an array of universes, of which ours is just one member. In his new book, Just Six Numbers, Dr. Martin Rees explains how certain refinements of the big-bang model make the "multiverse" an attractive option ... [more]

How Babies Think tells us what we've always suspected: Babies are very like us, only more so ... [more]

Murray Gell-Mann introduced the quantum property of "strangeness" to bring order to the subatomic world. Strange Beauty is George Johnson's fascinating portrait of one of the most important physicists of the post-war era ... [more]

In his new book, animal rights law professor Steven Wise argues that chimps are persons too ... [more]

An exhibition in Washington, DC traces the life and eclectic scientific career of Linus Pauling: an inspirational and humane genius (free registration required) ... [more]

Rather than the incessant chatter of a cell phone user at the table beside you in a restaurant, you may soon be irritated by the endless clacking of keys: TTY is going mobile ... [more]

Lawrence Lessig's Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace examines the laws, rules, and customs that govern the Internet -- and how they affect our privacy and freedom in the online world ... [more]

Why map a human? Genetic Maps and Human Imaginations is Barbara Katz Rothman's highly personal overview of the potentially devastating social consequences of the new genetics ... [more]

The more we pretend that technology can replace real human contact, the more we will come to view it as the enemy ... [more]

New software which markedly improves screen resolution and type clarity is taking us one step closer to reader-friendly e-books ... [more]

Leonardo da Vinci: The First Scientist paints the famed artist as no dilletante designer, but the true father of invention ... [more]

David Morris takes readers on an exploration into Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age ... [more]

Two new books explore the difficult life of Alfred Russel Wallace -- the 'moon to Darwin's sun' ... [more]

Never mind that New Year's resolution -- in the world of computing, it pays to put off until tomorrow what you can do today ... [more]

It's the end of TV as we know it! Television is being redefined as broadcasters, electronics manufacturers, and Net companies unite to provide comprehensive media services ... [more]

Pirate broadcasters have hit on a new way to hijack radio signals ... [more]

The Mind within the Net (for once, the "net" in the title doesn't refer to the internet) seeks to provide insight into the workings of the mind through neural networks ... [more]

So, who controls computer operating systems -- Microsoft or a vast anarchy of geeks? Robert Young's Under the Radar is the story of this conflict ... [more]

An American man has changed his name to DotComGuy, and is planning to spend the year 2000 living entirely through the internet in an attempt to prove how much of the world now operates online ... [more]